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Notes, call the company find out if they have the model in stock, they ship to you (with MF approval)you ship back to MF. MF settles up with mfg all's right with the world, except N Korea who want war with everybody.
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I've decided to sell it.
I'll post more after this weekend's gigs.
If you want to get a jump on it, before I put it up for bids, PM me (I don't think this is the proper forum for a classified ad).
Notes ♫
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Notes, call the company find out if they have the model in stock, they ship to you (with MF approval)you ship back to MF. MF settles up with mfg all's right with the world, except N Korea who want war with everybody.
Wyndham
Unfortunately MF says the model I want is out of stock, and won't be back in stock for at least 99 days. That's too long to wait for a new toy that's already paid for and it won't help with N Korea if I wait.
Notes ♫
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Heh, heh.
Every new guitar is "the one for years to come."
Until the next one, anyway...
MAC, so soooo true! LOL
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Hey Notes, what is the serial number on that guitar?
I'd be completely happy if I had just one more guitar.
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It's packed away, I'll try to get it out to take pictures tomorrow and I'll post the beginning of the serial number if you like.
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Twice the dif!!!!
I think I'd sleep somemore.
BTW if you do make a profit remember I recommended MF to you.
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I got the final word from the Federal Trade Commission site: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/products/pro15.shtmQ. What should I do if the unordered merchandise I received was the result of an honest shipping error?
A. Write the seller and offer to return the merchandise, provided the seller pays for postage and handling. Give the seller a specific and reasonable amount of time (say 30 days) to pick up the merchandise or arrange to have it returned at no expense to you. Tell the seller that you reserve the right to keep the merchandise or dispose of it after the specified time has passed.I wrote and posted the letter today. Now comes the waiting game. Since it's a Federal Trade Commission site, I have confidence that the information is correct. I feel much better now, knowing I did the right thing, and in the proper way. Thank you all for your help and suggestions. Whether they want it back, or if I put it up for sale next month, either way is OK with me. Further developments. I went through Funky Munky Music (by advice from the Parker Forum) and the guitar I actually want is supposed to be being shipped directly from the Parker Factory to me today via 2 day air!!! Notes ♫
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The DragonFLy from Funky Munky arrived yesterday, about 2 hours before we left for our gig. So I didn't have much time to play it before going on stage. First impressions: - It's beautiful (pictures will come as soon as I have time)
- It's as light as a feather. A few ounces more than my full hollow-body Epiphone Casino and Gibson ES-330
- It's well balanced - stays put when both hands are off the guitar
- It's very comfortable to hold against my body
- Positions 1 & 3 (neck and middle only) sound very strat-ish and 5 (humbucker only) sounds very Gibson-ish
- The fishman pickup gives it a very realistic acoustic sound by itself -- plus blending the acoustic with the magnetic pickups makes it sound like a flat top with a pickup in the round hole
- Positions 2 and 4 (and 4 with the humbucker in both hb and coil tapped) positions sound great too, but I don't know how to describe them (although position 4 with the humbucker in sc mode sounds a little like a tele only fatter). I'll get into this more after gigging, when I can play with it more off the gig without the rest of the band
The fit and finish of the guitar are excellent and the frets are dressed well. It came in a decent hard case (not a flight case though) and was set up well - intonation is great, although the action was a little higher than I prefer. I haven't played with the whammy much yet, and didn't on the gig. I've never had one, and it's a skill that definitely needs a little off stage work. I put the handle on before the gig (it came in the floating mode), and as per the instructions tuned the guitar, wiggled the stick, retuned, wiggled the stick and then checked intonation. It didn't go out of tune after the second tuning. (it has Sprezel locking tuners and a graph-tech nut). This will be my gigging guitar for a long time to come. I eventually want to replace the humbucker with a P-Rail so I can also have P90 tones too. Then it will be an "everything" guitar. I still haven't heard anything on the Mojo, but it's too early to sell it. Insights and incites by Notes ♫
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If they had dotless harmonicas, I'd be lost...!
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After the fiasco in this thread from the dealer who shipped the wrong guitar and then didn't have the right one --- I went to Funky Munky Music. Larry was very helpful and had Parker ship one directly to me (thanks Larry). It's beautiful, and the pictures don't do it justice. First of all it came in a serviceable case (definitely NOT a flight case)  --------- Here is a picture of my first impression. Notes: 1) This is the only picture that shows the color the way it really looksI took it on a different day from the rest of the pictures, and not being a photographer, I don't know what I did differently 2) I put the little white markers on the knobs myself (automobile reflector tape)  --------- A closeup of the body (see how faded the color looks? Again, I don't know what I did wrong - I'm a musician, not a photographer)  --------- The bridge (I can hear James Brown yelling "To the bridge -- to the bridge!" and the rhythm section accenting the climb)  --------- What good is guitar porn without a closeup of the knobs? (again, the tape markers are my own "improvement")  --------- Headstock  --------- This thing is both light and skinny!!! Note: I "enlarged" the fret marker dots myself with some of the same tape that I put on the knobs. When the stage is either dark or brightly lit from the front, and I have my mouth on the microphone, I need to see the dots out of the corner of my eyes.  --------- The backside  --------- Last one  Ain't she a beaut? --------- It's a dream to play. It's comfortable, well balanced, light weight, and I lowered the action so all it takes is a light touch. So how does it sound? - Take all this into consideration ... I'm a pro musician, but since the 60s it's been predominantly sax.
I've doubled on rhythm (barre chords) and bass using the instruments from my band-mates when there was no room for a sax.
- I also play with a Digitech RP355 direct into the PA set (I schlepp sax, flute, guitar, 2 wind synths, PA set, speakers,
another guitar for my partner, a tactile MIDI controller, and a rack full of synth modules.
I'm not about to add a guitar amp). Also, I have only played a real Fly for about 15 minutes, so there is no way this is a comparison to that.
My other guitars are a 1970 Gibson ES-330, a Epi Casino and an LTD-EC50 that I put GFS Mean 90 pickups and a Varitone in.
- Positions 1 and 3 (neck and middle) sound Strat-like.
Position 2 and 4 sound a little fatter.
Position 5 in the humbucker mode sounds Gibson-ish.
Position 4 with the humbucker in the SC tap sounds a little like a tele.
And the Fishman sounds close enough to a real Flat-Top guitar to tickle my ears - it has the acoustic jangle that most pedal simulations miss.
Mix the Piezo with the mag pups and it sounds like a flat top that has a magnetic pickup in the hole.
- It's still new, I'm gigging with it, and still exploring the sounds I can get from it so the above isn't final.
- The whammy bar does not put the guitar out of tune if you tune the guitar up, wiggle the bar, and then re-tune.
To summarize the review in two words, "I'm Delighted". Insights and incites by Notes ♫
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Vicariously enjoying your acquisition, Bob...
Break it in.
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Thanks Mac.
I'm having a little trouble formatting the text. It seems some of the ends of the lines are being cut off.
I'll edit some more.
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Bob,
I don't see that the text formatting is your problem, it's an issue with the forum, which PG Music should be fixing. I've not been able to read a lot of your posts, which kind of bums me out, since I wanted to.
Anyway, ask one of the guys at PG Music why the text formatting isn't working correctly.
Gary
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It happened many times, and always when there are pictures.
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I sent the Webmaster a PM to ask if he could fix this. At work, I have a 25" wide screen monitor, and this forum only takes up the middle half of the screen, leaving me two huge white columns on the sides. Waste of screen real estate in my opinion, plus no way to scroll right or left.
We'll see if they do anything about it.
Gary
I'm blessed watching God do what He does best. I've had a few rough years, and I'm still not back to where I want to be, but I'm on the way and things are looking far better now than what they were!
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Peeking at the page with Firebug, it looks like the rowBlock is set to a fixed width of 960 pixels. So anything wider than that isn't going to display. The problem is that the tables that are placed inside the rowBlock don't know anything about this restriction. As far as they know, they're allowed to expand as needed. So when content (like a picture) is placed inside one of these tables, that's exactly what they do - they expand on to the right-hand side of the screen. Unfortunately, they're clipped off at 960 pixels. It looks setting the tableSurround class to a fixed width might take care of things. Then again, CSS isn't really my expertise, so I could be completely wrong here. 
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The old forum's solution was a scrollbar that seems to be missing now.
When a pic blew out the page a scrollbar appeared.
I believe this is a php driven forum so the coding you are seeing is a little more
complex to figure out than what appears on the 'view source'.
I know I've spent hours tracking issues with php forums before that appeared to be simple html.
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I believe this is a php driven forum so the coding you are seeing is a little more
complex to figure out than what appears on the 'view source'.
I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I thought it might be an
easy fix. I don't envy anyone who has to maintain this sort of stuff.
In addition to dealing with the framework the board is written in,
you've got to work with a bunch of low-level technologies (HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, PHP, SQL...) and protect it from defacing, spambots,
and so on...
Still, it would be nice if it could be as easy as just tweaking
the CSS. I would hope that - just once - a simple fix might work. 
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There's always that chance that it's an easy CSS fix.. now which CSS is it becomes the question. Likely multiple style sheets being used behind the scenes. Just guessing but I'd expect- A css for the skin being used, a general format css (colors), a header css, a body css, a custom user css, and a footer css to look at (maybe more).. all in different folders. I don't envy them either. 
Make your sound your own!
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